West Side Story (2021)
David Alvarez: Bernardo
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Quotes
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Maria Vasquez : I want to make a life, a home. Maybe go to City College like Rosalía's cousin, Virginia. I want to be happy here.
Bernardo Vasquez : Pero Nueva York no te hace feliz...
Anita : English!
Bernardo Vasquez : Puerto Rico, sí.
Maria Vasquez : That is what you think. I'm gonna think for myself.
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Bernardo Vasquez : This is about family.
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Maria Vasquez : Tony. Who cares if he's a...? I don't know what he is. A Yankee?
Bernardo Vasquez : He's a Polack. That's what he is. A big, dumb Polack.
Anita : Polack, says the Spic. Now you sound like a real American.
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Bernardo Vasquez : Last night I dreamed I was back in Puerto Rico. In my dream, we had six kids.
Anita : Six kids? Marry a cat.
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Bernardo Vasquez : Better without knives.
Riff : Better for who is the question that comes to mind, but no knives. And no jazz till then. Copasetic?
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Anita : You want to know where my home is? It's where I pay rent. Right here, where I work my fingers raw, mending pants and hemming neckties so that I can earn enough money to pay other girls to sew for me, so that someday I can rent a shop of my own in this great, big, beautiful Nueva York. Ah. And if you think that I'm going back home to Puerto Rico with six kids that I put to bed hungry every night, amor de mi vida, you are dreaming.
Bernardo Vasquez : In Puerto Rico, our kids won't get fat like the kids in New York.
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Anita : [singing] I'll get a terrace apartment
Bernardo Vasquez : Better get rid of your accent
Anita , Rosalía , Luz : Life can be bright in America
Bernardo Vasquez , Braulio , Chago : If you can fight in America
Anita , Rosalía , Luz : Life is alright in America
Bernardo Vasquez , Braulio , Chago , Manolo , Pipo , Quique , Sebas : If you're all white in America...
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Bernardo Vasquez : The gringos tonight, they stare because...
Anita : Oh, like you don't stare.
Bernardo Vasquez : Because our girls make their girls look lousy.
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Chino : Let me join the Sharks.
Bernardo Vasquez : Ay, muchacho, not this again.
Chino : Por favor, let me help you protect our people.
Bernardo Vasquez : No. You keep out of that. It's stupid. We got to do it, but it's stupid.
Chino : Maria can't like a lambeojo who just works day and night. Never stand up like her brother.
Bernardo Vasquez : She says all the time she doesn't want anyone like me. Just be Chino. But be a Chino who dances.
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Anita : Chino is going to be rich.
Chino : Well, not exactly, pero.
Bernardo Vasquez : Boxers get rich.
Maria Vasquez : Boxers get their brains knocked out.
